Food fads come and go. Some are good -- hello, Cronut! Some are everlasting -- bacon on everything! And some are just WTF -- flavored infused foams? Why, Ferran Adria, why? The latest craze sweeping across the country falls squarely into the last category. Yes, I mean “bone broth.”

anderson cooper

With all the attention Anthony Bourdain’sIran episode of Parts Unknown has received, it should be no surprise that the host has continued to speak out for his two hosts while filming, who were arrested after filming. While Yeganeh Salehi has been recently released from detainment, Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian is still being held. His brother, Ali Rezaian, joined Bourdain on Anderson Cooper 360 to plead once again for his release.

Earlier today, it was announced that a young, hip, urban Anthony Bourdain protege would get a CNN-produced Twitter miniseries (?), and that, coupled with the fact that the Parts Unknown host got Anderson Cooper to eat something other than grilled cheese means he’s probably staging a takeover of CNN, if not the world.

Anderson Cooper (and by Anderson Cooper, we mean CNN at large) spend the top of last night’s Anderson Cooper 360 picking apart the Paula Deen scandal, with plenty of experts on hand, including her former publicist of 6 years, Nancy Assuncao.

As part of the hilariously cruel set of CNN Parts Unknown promos, Bourdain took Cooper to New York’s infamous Yakitori Totto and fed him all the parts of a chicken that could be skewered and (partially) grilled over hot coals.

Padma Lakshmi joined Anderson Cooper as his co-host on his first episode back after a hiatus to cover the papal conclave, and boy do those Anderson Live producers know how to throw a warm welcome home.